Many Shamans will go into a sweat house to get their premonitions, here is a make shift sweat house used by such native Indians;

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This is interesting in that such premonitions also have been reported by those in high impact sports and military operations. For instance a dehydrated athlete out for a break on a hot day, resting to go back in, often will have a sense of intuition, some say this is nothing more than psycho-cybernetics that the best athletes are said to do. Envision the goal, home run or play in your mind prior to the event. So many will say this is in fact not a premonition at all. Some running marathons will see events in the future too, although some will say these visions are nothing more than simple hallucinations as the mind reacts to the endorphins, fatigue or additional foot pounding cadence. Fighter pilots especially have been known to have such intuition, insights and premonitions, perhaps this is because the sun beating down on the canopy heat up the inside of the aircraft. Some of the best scorers in the NV desert for test bombing runs or at China Lake for the US Navy come from those they say have premonitions of such. These are well enough known and have been studied by the military to the point that even Luke Skywalker in StarWars was shown to have capabilities to sense the Force. Many pilots will see in advance a dogfight or SAM missile launch and see themselves victorious against the threat and the out come later is exactly that. However not much is talked about by those who may have had premonitions of death prior to a hit, after all they are dead now and cannot talk about it. I have even heard pilots talk about knowing when to maneuver the plane slightly left or right when making strafing runs, rocket launches or bombing runs when enemy anti-aircraft fire was taking place. Some of this is intuition some is judging the tracer rounds, yet it is uncanny how the best of the best treat these, slight signals in intuition and seem to be nearly invincible. Perhaps a test should be done where a group of pilots sit in a room and play a game of randomness by a computer which allows you to guess what is coming next with several colors, certain colors will shock you. Allow them several free button moves to block the shocks. Those who perform best after two weeks of this will receive a higher ranking in the class for those who receive jets, copters or transports.

Why? Well because intuition exists, trusting that intuition is key and there are studies proving this exists. Some families deliver more intuitive offspring than others. This is good in that you save aircraft, pilot training costs and lose fewer expensive aircraft and pilots. Why is this? Well these things are well known in psychology circles, occult studies, parapsychology and other fields. Why not use this to our advantage, sure it is not well understood as other sciences but there is significant proof and those of us with a little bit of intuition or have developed over time a bit extra senses, even if only a little means we can achieve more in less time. Often we will see entrepreneurs with these abilities and it shows up in athletes and in times of great challenge and stress. Are Shamans really magical? Or are they simply acknowledging the parts of the holistic universe and power of thought that many of use through social structure and scientific correctness refuse to see and even go out of our way to debunk or deny? If it works use it, in racing where intuition is key, the first thing they teach you is use the whole track. Excellent advice, so shouldn